Union Within - healing the inner child - 5 years later
Union Within - healing the inner child - 5 years later
“It is impossible to Truly love the adult that we are without owning the child that we were. In order to do that we need to detach from our inner process (and stop the disease from abusing us) so that we can have some objectivity and discernment that will allow us to have compassion for our own childhood wounds.” “I mention this as an example of the kinds of things that I learned to say to my inner child - but also to make the point that I haven’t heard the voice saying ‘I want to die’ in three or four years now. That was an almost daily voice in my life - and it represented a belief that I would never have peace in my life until death. That was an ingrained part of my perspective on life that greatly influenced my relationship with life. Through doing the inner child work, I have eliminated that negative belief from my programming. That is a miracle. I believe that it is actually possible to change the neural pathways in our brain through positive affirmations and self talk.” “Because of the effort I was putting into my recovery, I developed a recovery voice that was poised to pounce on any negative thoughts or spoken words as soon as I became aware of them. As I was waking up in the morning, the want to die thought would start surfacing and the recovery voice would spring into action inserting ’live’ into the sentence to replace ‘die.’”
On this page is a column by codependence counselor/Spiritual teacher about finding union within through inner child healing.
Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2015 by Robert Burney PO Box 98 Fallbrook CA 92088.
This column was originally published on 17 April 2001 as Inner Child Healing - Part 12 - Building Relationships Within on the Inner Child/Codependency Recovery page that I used to edit for Suite101.com Directory.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Union_Within.htm